Here’s what Rio’s Olympic venues look like 6 months after the games

Recent photographs of the almost brand new Rio Olympic venues show how quickly the facilities have decayed

The Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics took place only six months ago, and it was in that short time that the Olympic Village has managed to turn into a ghost town.

Decades of inequality and urban decay warned that the city was ill-prepared to host athletes and fans from around the world, and now after struggling to figure out how to pay for the games, the village has fallen into disrepair.

The power has been turned off at the Maracanã Stadium because there is nobody to pay the energy bill, water in one practice pool is orange, the turf has turned brown, and countless stadium seats have been removed from the field.

Daelcio de Freitas, the spokesperson for Maracanã SA which manages the stadium, said that things aren’t so grim since concrete blocks aren’t yet falling people’s heads. “There are things that you can see on the surface that are damaged, like the grass and the seats,” de Freitas told CNN. “However, what we are most concerned about is the safety of the people who are coming to Maracanã and we need to make sure things, like the stadium’s roof, weren’t compromised.”

Just six months after the games, the very expensive and sparkly venues built for the occasion look like this: